Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - General Sociology

Curriculum vitae

 
Education


09/2019
Doctoral Degree (summa cum laude)
Thesis on 'Technological Governance. The Rise of Network Ideas in the Crisis of Modernity. Foucault, Luhmann, and Cybernetics' (submitted in German, 11/2018)
Board: Prof. Herfried Münkler, Prof. Hartmut Rosa, Prof. Silvia von Steinsdorff


03/2013
Master of Arts (1,0/excellent) in Social Sciences; thesis on the genealogy of transparency (published as vol. 9 in Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann's series "Visual Politics")


08/2010
Bachelor of Arts (1,2/excellent) in German Literature (major) and Social Sciences (minor); thesis on socio-cultural performativity (book publication)

 

 

Current positions

since 10/2023
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology
(fixed-term/interim)

since 11/2022
Head of the research group "Ecological Conflicts"
University of Erfurt / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Gerda Henkel Foundation (preparation phase since 11/2022, funding phase 2023-2026)

 

 

 

Other positions

since 03/2023
University of Erfurt
Visiting researcher 

 

since 04/2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Social Theory and Cultural Sociology (Prof. Andreas Reckwitz)

Postdoctoral research fellow 

 

06/2020-09-2023
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Social Theory and Cultural Sociology (Prof. Andreas Reckwitz)

Postdoctoral research fellow 

 

01/2014 - 05/2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Political Theory (Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler)

Research fellow and lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)


01/2019 - 02/2019
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society

Visiting research fellow in "Democracy and Digitalization"


01/2016-06/2016
University of California, Berkeley
Institute of European Studies (Prof. Mark Bevir)

Visiting Researcher


04/2013-12/2013
Humboldt Research Track Scholar (Exzellence Initiative)
and visiting lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin


2011-2013
CRR 644 "Transformations of Antiquity"
Student assistant with the chair of political theory and the project "Patterns of Imperial Interpretation" (Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler)

 

2009-2010
CRR 640 "Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel"
Multiple internships in project coordination


 

Grants and awards

2023-2026

Research Group Funding (ca. 235.000 €, with André Brodocz), Gerda Henkel Foundation 

2021

Open Access Funding for excellent dissertations, Humboldt-University Library

2021

Publication Funding for excellent dissertations, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU Berlin 

2019

Research Fellowship, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society

2018

Young Researcher Invitation to »Herrenhausen Conference«, Volkswagen Foundation

2016

Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2013

Humboldt Research Track Scholarship, Excellence Initiative at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2008 – 2013

Scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

 

Academic service and memberships


  • co-publisher and editor at Theorieblog
  • journal reviewer: Theory and Society, European Journal of Social Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, History of Humanities, Leviathan, Behemoth, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, Analyse & Kritik, BMTW (Special Issue on Ethics)
  • member of the DVPW (German Political Science Association)
  • member of the DGS (German Sociological Association)
  • board of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU Berlin (2021-2023)
  • standing doctoral committee at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU Berlin (2016-2021)
  • member of several dissertation committees, Department of Social Sciences, HU Berlin
  • member of the working group "Political theory in the digital constellation" (2019/20)
  • member of a search committee, Department of Social Sciences, HU Berlin (2017/18)